Monkey Monday: reading break edition 1 February 2010 9:37 am
Posted by Tracy in : eating,events,geekery,monkeys,not even vegetarian,nyc,random,reading,restaurants,school , View CommentsOk, so I am up to my ears in reading about public policy for metropolitan regions, and loving every minute of it (even if the equation typography occasionally offends my math nerd sensibility). Which is to say, I got into a class at the NYU Wagner graduate school of public service (y’know, policy, planning, management, all that boring wonky stuff that I love so very, very much). Woohoo! Important take-home lesson for everyone: seriously, do not even try to wrangle NYU cross-school registration through the main registrar’s office, which will give you about half a dozen forms to fill out and have signed by people in at least three different offices (also they may not know which members of certain schools’ student services staff are newly retired, and look at you confusedly when you say yep, you emailed that guy already and got an auto-reply email that said “go back to the previous step.”) Instead, email the professor of the class you want to take, get permission to take the class, and contact that professor’s school (ideally with the professor backing you up). In my case, the result was not one but two friendly emails saying, hey, fill out this web form and we’ll do the rest. Yay!
Here are a few more awesome things I have learned since my last post: (more…)
